This past weekend, legendary hardcore outfit Quicksand performed a sold out hometown reunion show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Videographers, Sunny Singh - who previously brought you shows from Blacklisted (here), Paint it Black (here), Lifetime (here) and many others - were on hand to record the show but were stopped after about fifteen minutes and so were unable to get the whole show.

Due to their frustration with being unable to record the show, they've launched a petition to urge the venue to allow videotaping in the future.

So many venues are assholes about video capturing: even though the footage has no real commercial value: shaky, dark, out of focus. If anything, the shitty videos actually inspire others to go to shows-- its free advertising for the bands... It's not just pocket cameras, SLR's, camcorders or even those shitty flip caneras. Don't let them catch you holding your iPhone steady for longer than 5 minutes or some fat turd security dude will give you shit... There's so many venues I will never go to, no matter the band, because they crack down on video camera use.

This sort of thing is usually up to the band. If the band doesn't tell the venue they allow taping, then the venue is going to assume that they won't want it and will react as they deem needed. If you want to tape shows the best thing to do is contact the band before hand and get a press pass.

No idea what comments you're talking about. I read the article which mentioned none of that but have zero interest in watching the video, so if I was way off base with my comment, I have to lay blame with whomever wrote the write up.

If the band gave him permission then he should have had a press pass, which would normally make this the venues fault, unless they have a policy of 3 songs and out for photographers. Then again, it could have been a case of overzealous security) newer security guards tend to jump the gun on things that they were told to look out for, forgetting about silly little things like press passes.

Comments on this article, user "hate5six". I also know the guy, and he does do things in a very professional manner. He had been trying for a whole month to get permission from both band/venue to film. The band said yes, venue said no.

^I seriously can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. In the event you aren't - if you're referring to the hate5six video, please actually watch it before making such an assumption. It was filmed on an actual HD camera, not a shitty iPhone or Flip Cam.

Well, if the band granted permission, then sure, the venue goofed up by forcing him to stop filming, but trying to start a petition to completely change the rules of the venue seems like overkill. But hey, what do *I* know? I'm not a fancy "videographer"...I went to college.

As for the video itself, I don't care if it's ultra-super-high-definition, the music still sounds like a lot of screamin' and shoutin' to my ears.